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The Castle in April 1865 "The Castle" (built, 1847) on the National Mall: the institution's earliest building remains its headquarters.. In many ways, the origin of the Smithsonian Institution can be traced to a group of Washington citizens who, being "impressed with the importance of forming an association for promoting useful knowledge," met on June 28, 1816, to establish the Columbian ...
The Smithsonian Castle houses the administrative offices of the Smithsonian. The main Smithsonian visitor center is also located here, with interactive displays and maps. Computers electronically answer most common questions. A crypt just inside the north entrance houses the tomb of James Smithson. [13]
The Smithsonian Institution is a museum complex with most of its facilities in Washington, D.C., United States. It consists of 19 museum buildings, a zoological park, 7 research centers and 142 million items in its collections.
The Smithsonian museums are the most widely visible part of the United States' Smithsonian Institution and consist of 20 museums and galleries as well as the National Zoological Park. [ 1 ] 17 of these collections are located in Washington D.C. , with 11 of those located on the National Mall .
Washington Resigning His Commission is a life-size plaster statue of General George Washington by the sculptor Ferdinand Pettrich created around 1841. It depicts George Washington's resignation as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and is on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.. [1] [2]
The Arts and Industries Building is the second oldest (after The Castle) of the Smithsonian museums on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Initially named the National Museum, it was built to provide the Smithsonian with its first proper facility for public display of its growing collections. [3]
The S. Dillon Ripley Center, better known simply as the Ripley Center, is one of the buildings of the Smithsonian Institution series of museums located in the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The above-ground portion is only a small pagoda , and it descends into a larger underground portion.
View at the National Zoo, Washington, D.C., 1909. The zoo first started as the National Museum's Department of Living Animals in 1886. [12] By an act of Congress on March 2, 1889, [13] [14] [15] for "the advancement of science and the instruction and recreation of the people", the National Zoo was created.